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Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia

Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia

Sorin Adam Matei, Robert J. Bruno
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781613503386|ISBN10: 1613503385|EISBN13: 9781613503393
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-338-6.ch001
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Matei, Sorin Adam, and Robert J. Bruno. "Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia." Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships, edited by Francesca Comunello, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-338-6.ch001

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Matei, S. A. & Bruno, R. J. (2012). Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia. In F. Comunello (Ed.), Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships (pp. 1-23). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-338-6.ch001

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Matei, Sorin Adam, and Robert J. Bruno. "Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia." In Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships, edited by Francesca Comunello, 1-23. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-338-6.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the emergence of social media, especially wiki environments, as collaborative knowledge tools that function within a given set of individualistic and community-oriented cultural and functional constraints. The chapter provides the reader with an understanding of wiki social functions and technical capabilities and of the main value and cultural promises associated with them. It also examines the social and knowledge challenges they create and their likely impact on knowledge production in an individual and community setting. One main conclusion of the chapter is that wiki technologies need to be understood not as an overcoming of the tension between individualism and community, but as a product of their conflict, which they epitomize.

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